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29 septembre 2016
- handle: 10670/1.dfbazv
- isbn: 9783902811202
- eisbn: 9783903122406
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Sonja Puntscher Riekmann, « Austria’s Dismal EU Membership: From Enthusiasm to Ambivalence », innsbruck university press, ID : 10670/1.dfbazv
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Introduction Austria’s application for EU membership coincided with the end of the Cold War and the demise of the Soviet Empire. The debate about membership, mainly driven by economic reasons, had flared up several times before, but only in the second half of the 1980s geopolitics opened a real window of opportunity for putting aside the arguments about Austria’s neutrality that had so far precluded membership. The application documents were handed in on 17 July of the mythical year 1989, whe...